Male beauty and strength were highly valued by ancient Greeks, and they were celebrated at a special beauty pageant known as ...

Welcome to the ancient agora, the original social media of the ancient Greeks, where people could argue about... everything!

First off the Greeks gave the world democracy – which we still use in Britain today to choose who runs the country. In ancient Athens, citizens met regularly to vote on the laws that changed ...

Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world, but some of these ... and only about 35,000 men would have been full citizens. In comparison, other important cities, like Corinth ...